Sunday, August 18, 2002

Related to that, where are the developers these days. I'm not talking about hoardes of people who clone Unix and Unix utilities. I mean people doing real new software, new ideas, patentable stuff, who aren't taking the patents. Those are the people we should be hearing from. I also like hearing from smart respected lawyers. I'm not one of those people who think all lawyers are slime. But something is really wrong when all we hear from re technology are lawyers. That's when you get disconnects like his oft-repeated mantra that developers aren't doing anything. Well, Larry, if you don't talk to developers, how could you possibly know? [Scripting News] Unfortunately the lawyers make it dangerous to do patentable work and not patent it. If you try, someone else will come along, copy your idea, patent it, and then sue you for infringing their patent. Who wants to have their idea stolen from them by lawyers using the government to trash competitors? comment () trackback ()  2:31:29 PM     I got an email from Tara Grubb, the Libertarian candidate for Congress running against Howard Coble. We're going to talk later today on how to get an issues-oriented website up for her campaign against Howard Coble. First we have to find out if we can support Ms Grubb, and then I'm going to try to talk with Coble (maybe I have to go to North Carolina for that), and maybe we'll do a balls-out project to elect Ms Grubb as the first Representatitve that the Internet helped elect (to balance the help that Coble and others get from Hollywood). If we could change just one seat in Congress people would stand up and take notice. I don't know enough about North Carolina politics to have any clue if that's possible. But I do know a few bloggers who live in North Carolina, and I plan to ask them what they think. [Scripting News] I don't really see what "the Internet" can do to help elect somebody. However, if by some chance it were possible, Ms. Grubb would double the number of Libertarians in Congress (Ron Paul of Texas, although officially a Republican, is really a Libertarian). The most serious obstacle to winning an election as a Libertarian candidate is that the Republocrats have a lock on the media. Third party candidates are not permitted to participate in debates and usually don't receive more than a one sentence mention from the media. It's possible for exceptions to occur, but it basically requires that either the third-party candidate be incredibly rich (like Ross Perot) or one of the Dempublican candidates to screw up and invite the candidate to join the debates (as happened with Jesse Ventura). comment () trackback ()  12:11:54 PM

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